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I've been testing the new forum and multiple select features, and I must say, I'm pretty excited. The forum is going to be a really powerful new tool, and will finally allow you to manage large discussions and deep content message boards on SiteMaker. And the multiple select, well it just feels right. Much easier to move things around, nudge them, drag them, delete them and copy and paste them between pages.

Should be with you in 2 weeks or so. Nice.

www.gandi.net (Moonfruit's sister company in France) has launched the .co.uk extension, which is great for many Moonfruit customers who come from the UK. And don't worry if you're not from the UK, Gandi offers .com's, .net's, .eu's, and a lot more besides. Because Gandi is Moonfruit's sister company they are used to working with Moonfruit customers and can set up your domain to work with your Moonfruit site quickly and easily. Go on, have a go!

Here it is, the hottly anticipated guide to building design templates for SiteMaker. If you want to build us some templates to be used by hundreds of new people everyday, and get paid for it, then read on.

Fancy building some templates?

Howdy. Our design team have been working on a few new design templates to spruce things up a bit for the end of the summer (what summer?). And while we were doing it, we thought a bit about how we could open up template creation to you the customers, so that you can contribute to the media set available within SiteMaker. Sound interesting?

Since we didn't have a very exciting release at the end of July, we thought we'd post up some screenshots of the new forum feature that is in development and will be delivered over the next few months. It should allow a whole range of new features, plus making it far easier to browse and manage posts. So have a look...

As some of you will have noticed, loading speeds and access to your websites have not been optimal. This is down to continued problems that we have been encountering with our network. We are in ongoing discussions with our supplier to correct this.

We are also reconfiguring our current system to find additional speed improvements which in the short term may cause some further access or speed problems but in the long term should fix the problem outright.

This is the first time in over 5 years we have had sustained difficulties with our network and we are confident that this will be corrected shortly and permanently. All of us at SiteMaker know how important your sites are to you and your visitors and we are working as quickly and as diligently as we can to fix this.

We do apologise for the inconvenience this has caused you. We ask only for a little more patience while we resolve this problem and return our sites to a high and consistent level of access.

Thanks.

So, done by keywords, started my optimisation, quick check on my current ranks:

• "West London Taxi" - number 7, "Joes London Taxis" - number 1 (Google.com)
• "West London Taxi" - number 2, "Joes London Taxis" - number 1 (Yahoo.com)
• "West London Taxi" - number 1, "Joes London Taxis" - number 1 (msn.com)

Looks good, and I've even finally been listed by Yahoo!

If you've been reading the all the articles in this series of SEO, this will make more sense to you. For those of you who are new, these articles are about how to get your site listed and up in the rankings on the major search engines. I've been building my own site as a practical example as I go, and things seem to be going well.

Our latest release is now out. We've focused on increasing the interactivity on your sites (comment widget), and providing you with marketing tools (mail to a friend), and the ability for all sites to support membership. There's a summary and then a detailed description of some of the new features below.

Our latest release is now out there. Check out the additions and bug fixes in the list below. For those of you looking for the comment widget, this has been delayed to the next release, but will be out in May with some other goodies...